System and Method for Organizing Application Programs and Status Information

1. A terminal device, comprising: a display screen; a display unit having a function to display a menu window on the display screen, wherein the menu window includes an upper layer of items, each item representing an application program grouping, and wherein each application program grouping contains one or more application programs; a selection unit to prompt a user to select any of the items in the menu window being displayed on the display screen; and a container unit to contain status information concerning an application program of the one or more application programs, wherein the status information of the application program represents a datum executable by the application program, wherein the display unit displays, when any of the items respectively representing the upper layers is selected through the selection unit, an application program symbol associated with each one of the application programs contained in the application program grouping represented by the selected item along with the status information concerning each application program having an executed datum in the container unit on the display screen, wherein the status information displayed by the display unit represents the latest datum executed by the application program when the application program was last active, wherein when the application program is last active refers to, when the application program is inactive, a time point in which the application program was one of: previously terminated, minimized from the display, and activated by a periodic occurrence.

2. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the display unit is configured to display objects on the display screen based on a template, wherein the template defines: a hierarchical structure including the first plurality of items representing the upper layers, a second plurality of items representing the one or more application programs, and a third plurality of items representing the status information.

3. The terminal device according to claim 2 , wherein the template defines the manners of displaying and operational behaviors for the first plurality of items respectively representing the upper layers, which include contents to be displayed, positions to be displayed, sizes to be displayed, and behaviors based on user's operations.

4. The terminal device according to claim 2 , wherein the template associates the items respectively representing the application program grouping with the respective one or more application programs and defines the manners of displaying and operational behaviors for the second plurality of items respectively representing the one or more application programs, which include contents to be displayed, positions to be displayed, sizes to be displayed, and behaviors based on user's operations.

5. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein the behaviors based on user's operations include activation of the one or more application programs.

6. The terminal device according to claim 2 , wherein the template defines the manners of displaying and operational behaviors for the third plurality of items representing the status information, which include contents to be displayed, positions to be displayed, sizes to be displayed, and behaviors based on user's operations.

7. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the application program of the one or more application programs is a media player application program, and wherein the status information is related to a recorded track, and the setting pertains to one of an artist name, song name, track number, album name, associated with the recorded track.

8. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the application program of the one or more application programs is a browser application program, and wherein the status information is related to a web page, and the setting is the URL of the last website visited.